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EXHIBITION


StudiotoSelfi e: An exploration
ofportraitphotography
Runsuntil3 November at Bradford Industrial
Museum,Bradford. Open Tuesday-Sunday
10/11-4pm.Admission free.
USINGimagesfrom Bradford Museums and Galleries
photographicarchive, this exhibition explores how
variousgenerations have used photography to
representthemselves. It looks at the relationship
betweenphotographer, viewer and subject – these
days,thephotographer with a smartphone is often all
three.It alsoexamines how portraits can be deceiving,
it exploresVictorian concepts of portraiture, and you
canseecharacters from Bradford’s industrial past.
Finally,it asksthe question – if you were being
photographed,how would you want future generations
toseeyou?Youcan also try the interactive Victorian
photographicstudio and take selfi es in the style of
Victorian-erafigures of note. Amy Davies

© LI YUAN-CHIA, UNTITLED, C1993. COURTESY THE LI YUAN-CHIA FOUNDATION


‘New York City. 1984. Feast of San Gennero, Little Italy’


Li Yuan-chia: Unique
Photographs
The Whitworth, The University of Manchester.
Open daily 10am-5pm (Thursdays 9pm). Free.
DURING his lifetime, the Chinese conceptual artist Li
Yuan-chia travelled from China, to Taiwan, Bologna
and London before setting up home in 1972 in Banks
at the far north of Cumbria on Hadrian’s Wall.
It’s here that he set up the LYC Museum and Art
Gallery, a place dedicated to showing innovative art
alongside workshops and his own experimental work.
In his life, Yuan-chia experimented with sculpture,
painting and poetry, but in this exhibition, housed in
the wonderful Whitworth gallery in Manchester, the
focus is on his photography. Here are a group of
hand-coloured photographs of himself, his sculpture
and garden at Banks. How Li created this effect is not
certain, but it’s thought that he used inks designed for
retouching analogue colour photographs.
Often strange, but always melancholically beautiful
and surreal, the images are shown alongside the
artist’s collection of fi lm cameras.
The exhibition runs until 15 December. Amy Davies

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